Liam Yek

1-2 mil US based G maps leads released weekly at emtoss.com/leads completely free to download, and fresh as they come. if people have any scrapes I can run them free, just let me know, there's a waitlist.

We generated 2,000 leads in a week for 1 client. (500 leads in 1 day last week) You can find the full breakdown on my YouTube: @LiamYek or use this link here: https://youtu(dot)be/QJDnSBvSRWo P.s quite literally never seen numbers like this, a lot to gleam, and it's going to change the way we sign clients.

We’ll reach $100k per/m by the end of 2026 (Probably sooner), here’s why: Emtoss has been 2xing every month for the last 2 months. > 5k in Jan > 10k in Feb > 20k in Mar (At 14k Euro rn, but there’s a few outstanding contracts) I say this for full transparency, we’re growing so fast. And this is what I’ve realized. This isn’t talked about often, but it’s the unwavering belief that anything is possible. We’ve survived everything: > Microsoft shutdowns > Being in Debt > Having to fire the team in Sep of 2025 (due to my mistakes) I could go on and on, but it’s all leading to this year. The stars are aligning, we’ve developed partnerships with outbound communities for pre-warmed inboxes, Saas is the best on the market (only tailored to high volume senders), we can generate clients at will through pure cold email volume and social media distribution + most importantly… I can see the vision, I will stop at nothing to make this happen. Ideally we gear towards a $100k MRR SAAS (With insanely strong margins) + a potential 7 figure exit, or I die trying. Stay tuned for the generational run.

We released the full Apollo database on our site for free, here’s what happened: The outbound gods gave me a pat on the back. “Nobody has ever provided this much value to the outbound market before” I’d say Jeff Cassman is also enlightened, If you know you know. Big shoutout. He has some crazy intent stuff which he gives away. All jokes aside, this is the game, the more value you give, the more you receive. And this is why Emtoss is bringing back free leads drops, we’ve been MIA for a bit, dealing with huge fires, building ops and a Saas platform that scrapes 50-100 mil leads on the market. It scrapes 7million emails a day, and validates 300-600k+ emails a day. (Looking to ramp this up) Data validation is based off confidence scores: After 6hrs: > 30.1K emails > 0.95: 22.4K > 0.9: 1,529 > 0.85: 0 > 0.7: 478 > 0.5: 5,705 We ran an internal test with 30k leads for a client, plugging in all leads 0.5-0.95% confidence and bounce rate were 1.45%, generating 141 leads in 1 day. We have the best data on the market by far, I’d vouch for it till the day I die. All data is live due to a gating system we’ve set up. The goal is to create the best product on the market, and we’re pretty much there. Stay tuned, vid is on the way. P.s It feels like you're using a Palantir product (that was done intentionally)

We manage 40k Inboxes at Emtoss, and I just vibe-coded a U.I to take care of it all manual tasks The single largest issue with this volume is tracking, how many: - Domains do we have in total - Total inboxes - Domains in Use - Which providers - Which are ready to sell - Etc So I used Minimax M2.5, Kimi-K2.5, GLM-5, linking them with OpenCode. Giving the agents a terminal to write commands in. The server itself is set up on Contabo, I had a base Ubuntu setup lying around which I was using, so I wiped it and started the vibe journey. Few things extra things I’m going to be building in: - Account tracking, i.e if someone buys domains, we track inbox deliverability and campaign reply rates, this means we can issue replacements before they flag it on their end - Billing costs both clients and ourselves - Login window - Inbox Placement tests for all accounts This is your sign to start vibe coding.

@scaling_shields First person getting onboarded Monday, it's going to be extremely exclusive (probably max 10 users) I'll have an admin dashboard sometime next week and I'll start promoting it more

@YekLiam When is this live? Looks insane

We can scrape 50-100 million leads a month & 65-90% of those will have valid emails. I’ve been in the cold email space for 2 ½ years and this is what I would have wanted when I started. It’s a Saas that does 3 main things: - Scrapes entire countries for Google maps leads (with validated emails) - Stores them in a Database for recurring use, no more CSV files - Start custom scrapes when needed 3 smaller things it does: - Tracks how many leads are in each state/country - Tracks when the leads were scrapes - Filtering for multiple niches and States The entire goal was to cater to high volume senders, people sending 5-15mil emails a month. While also having everything that was missing from other softwares. It’s currently in Beta, and we’re going to onboard our first customer in the next 1-2 weeks. The goal is to have a database that “grows” & most importantly customers can influence which way it grows. Some seriously cool stuff on the horizon, stay tuned.

We lost 30,000 Inboxes in 1 day from the Microsoft shutdown, here’s what I learnt, and how to avoid it. TLDR: Many providers in the space were using 1 vendor to source tenants from. The vendor got shut down by Microsoft. They were fuelling a large portion of the market. And this is the first lesson: 1. If you think something is a good deal, everyone else does too. This leads to a large point of failure in the market. They got “too big too fail” yet they failed. There's many studies pointing out, if good times last, we think they’ll continue to last, which is exactly what happened. Good times stopped. 2. You need to diversify infra on multiple levels On the tenant / Microsoft level is 1, 2nd is Google. You need more vendors to reduce risk, we only survived because we had a 2nd tenant provider who went untouched. We allocated those inboxes across our clients, we also had google legacy panels that supplemented some of the sending. 3. You need to have a large cash stock pile when stuff like this happens We quite literally lost 1000s of $$$ in less than 24 hours. We only survived since I stocked up cash and could eat the loss.

Worst Offers to sell via cold email (If you’re a beginner): - Websites - Cyber Security - SEO Not saying it doesn’t work, it’s just very difficult to get right. Offers that are much easier to get right: - Insurance - Anything Finance related (Loans, VC) - Reputation Management We have clients that are getting 100s of positive replies within these sectors. Have a better offer.

@akola77 It's really good, and really good value, you just need something run the API

@YekLiam How's Mailtester Ninja? That's a crazy good price for email validation

Most data disappears into your Google Drive the second you buy it. We are engineering a system that stops that. We’re taking our huge G maps dataset of 25 million leads and 4 million emails and turning it into an automatic enrichment engine. The goal is to solve the problem of data decay. Here is the technical approach we are using to make it happen: > We are building on Supabase to handle heavy query loads and ensure scalability. > We leverage Cursor to manage complex scraping workflows and automate the data pipeline. > Every record is run through Mailtester Ninja (1mil validations a day for $100) to ensure strict data quality. > We’ve designed a UI that allows users to granularly filter by geographic location or lead volume and export clean lists in seconds. The goal is to automate the system end to end: > Monthly scraping of each lead > Validation of the entire database > Automatic deduplication > Automatic data export to Clay Webhooks The ultimate goal is to perfect this, the plug in other datasets. We have Apollo, Datalabs, Linkedin and a few others, all 100+ mil datasets. Never buy leads again. That would be a nice motto. Drop a comment if you’re interested in early access or want to discuss the setup.

Instantly vs Smartlead has been a hot topic for ages, I posted a video on it and we’re up to 2k views and it’s still growing to this day. It shows there’s so much confusion/debate around why one is better than the other. Here’s my honest thoughts: Most sequencers are the exact same, have a warmup pool, an ability to sequence emails, robust API setup, and lead storage. It’s not exactly rocket science. What matters is everything after this. Instantly has a better U.I and warmup settings, I’ve had so many issues with SL’s warmup settings not following what’s been set. A massive perk of SL is, they’ve recently added unlimited storage to their max plan, which is such a huge benefit. (I do think it was fuelled by competitors implementing something similar) So just to wrap things up the one I’m using now is Instantly, we have roughly 20k inboxes. And it’s working perfectly. I’ll probably dive into Reachinbox, Plusvibe and Email Bison in another post, I’ve used/have clients on many of those aswell.

13 Hacks in Clay that can save you 100s of $ and hours of your life each month: 1. Normalize Phone Number 2. Normalize Domain 3. Check if Domain is valid 4. Send Table data 5. Extract URL/Emails + Regex Function 6. Lookup Single Row in other table 7. HTTP request module has a rate limit function 8. Use Lists to map data to another table 9. The find People/Companies option is insanely broken 10. You should be colouring your Columns to make it easier to read 11. Webhook function is great for live data 12. Since the Clay limit is 50k (Not on enterprise) the best option to bypass is sending data to multiple tables with a random number generator 13. Try use your API keys as much as possible, Clay has a crazy markup. 14. When using Find People, you can cap a table at 50k by using the Exclude companies option Hidden things I’ve found out > Clay has a row limit of 15million > The max tables you can connect is 9 > The max cell data for Formulas is 8kb and 200kb for API calls

My Plans for 2026: Scale Emtoss by creating mass distribution. Plus build out Saas products for lead gen agencies. 2025 was pretty insane: > Open Sourced 25mil Leads, causing Virality > Managed over 30k Inboxes for multiple LGA (Lead Gen Agencies) > Ran Campaigns for INC5000 & YC companies > In the 95% percentile when it comes to Clay workflows. On a Personal Note: > Moved to Germany, Munich > Found a friend that thinks and operates the same as me (Roommate) > Bouldering once a week with a sick crew of people In 2026, I wanna have a massive brand, and provide immense amounts of value to the market. i.e more free leads than anyone can ever think of. We have ops and code in place to make this a reality. 2026 is gonna be sick.

I wonder where the inspiration for this ad came from 🤔 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩* Mr Hormozi Cool ad concept

I booked 30 calls in just one single week using this exact outreach system, here’s the breakdown. Most people buy a lead list and pray that the emails are real. I decided to stop guessing and took a raw list of 300,000 domains and built a Clay Table that filters them down to only the ones that are actually spending money right now. The secret is a redirect method that’s built into Clay. Here is what the system does for me automatically: > Checks if the website is active or dead > Sees if they redirect traffic to a sales funnel > Uses GPT to find the name of the decision maker > Validates the email address in real time There’s a little more nuance when it comes to the build out, so if you’re interested I have a full video breakdown on how I made the table. Connect + Comment Clay, and I’ll send it over

Emtoss is here to solve one big problem. Lead Gen agencies with massive data costs. When I was working with and consulting for top agencies, it was blatantly obvious that data costs + enrichment costs were squeezing margins. And they needed: > Cheap Data > Ways to self host Databases (that isn’t Google Drive) > Something that’s completely automatic end to end We’ve built the first leg of this, “Cheap Data” next is a way to self host databases. The goal is to make this universal usable for large agencies. Standard agencies, use cheap apollo data and get subpar results or have heavy enrichment costs. So, if you have large data costs, check out Emtoss.

For the last 2 years, I’ve been recording a yearly goals video, talking about current status & things I’d like to achieve for the coming year. After doing this for 2026, I’ve come to realise things never go to plan, like ever. I want to do x in y timeframe. It’s just a case of working more, putting in more hours, and sure there’s an aspect of work to it. But the other one is time, I never give projects enough time to build, to gain the necessary skills, to wait. “Macro patience, Micro speed” I read this somewhere, and it hits home

I just locked in my plan for 2026 and it’s completely driven by what my customers told me. Instead of guessing what the market wants I sent a short form to my newsletter (<300 people) and WhatsApp community and asked one question: What do you actually need from Emtoss in 2026 I asked: - Where our current email lists fall short - Which databases you want scraped next - What data you are missing to run successful cold email - What services or tools would genuinely make your life easier. To get real answers I paired it with an incentive of three promo codes for any list on Emtoss so people were rewarded for their time and I still kept the process as low friction as possible. The responses are now my roadmap. In 2026 I am expanding into > New databases like niche B2B sources (Apollo, Clutch, Podcasts/Youtubers) > City wide business coverage and more international data (Lost of requests for Canada + UK) > Cleaning and enriching existing lists with better fields > Clean company names, more emails and additional context. I am also prioritizing tools people directly ask for, scrapers and validators, better navigation, a master file of all lists (Done Already), potential bundles and beginner friendly tutorials and course style content to help people actually use the data with AI. On top of that the reviews and ratings from this process become powerful social proof to support everything we launch. Of course, this won’t be done immediately, easily 3-6 months to scale up ops, but it allows us not to fly blind. If you want to follow this journey and get access to the new lists scrapers and education we roll out in 2026 check out Emtoss And join the newsletter which is the first link in the bio.

You don’t need to be an algorithm wizard to grow your social channels (Although it does help) Here’s what I mean. Most creators post a content and wait for the algorithm to bless it and then get discouraged when it pulls 25 to 50 views. As a business owner, you’re likely: - Not good at content - Don’t have the time for content - Or don’t understand what us Gen Z ers like. (i.e 6 7 Meme) I was exactly that person posting solid cold email content and seeing okay numbers at best. Just to give you some POC my YT is up to 733 subs as of today. The turning point was when I stopped thinking about channels first and started thinking about distribution first. I launched massive free lead drops at Emtoss that genuinely helped people get thousands of leads for their offers. Every download carried my name, my brand and my links so people who got results naturally checked out my YouTube and other socials. At the same time I built warm channels like a newsletter and a WhatsApp group so each new video could launch with a base of viewers who already trusted me. Once that warm base existed my average views and subs climbed quickly because YouTube saw strong early watch time and started exposing the content to a much bigger cold audience. In essence we moved our baseline from ~50-100 views in 1-2 days to >24hrs. If you are early in your channel don’t wait for a perfect viral video and start engineering your own traffic. Ask what painful problem you can solve for free at scale, package it as a lead magnet, link your socials everywhere and build at least one direct distribution list around it. P.s If you’re interested in my channel just lookup “Liam Yek” into google/YT

We figured out how to turn scrape 4 million emails for Free, here’s the breakdown: Over the last 4 months we’ve scraped ~25-30mil leads from Google maps. The problem was obvious: those records rarely include emails and manually enriching them or piping them through third party tools would be insanely expensive and slow. I.e Claygent from Clay which is ~0.001 per row * 25mil = 25k Instead of accepting that we built our own system that plugs directly into our Google Sheets, Google Drive using the Google AP and a python Script on an Oracle server. Here is what it does: 1. We drop all our free leads into a shared Google Sheet. 2. The script reads that sheet via the Google API then on an Oracle server it pulls every single niche one by one. 3. From there a Python script pulled each site and scrapes them in sequence, runs three separate passes to look for email lists and lands around a ~40% hit rate. 4. Once all the emails for a niche are found the system automatically creates a Stripe payment link and a Linkila tracking link so we can sell and track the data with zero manual uploads into Clay or any enrichment SaaS. 5. The entire setup costs free to run since the Oracle server is free and once it is live it just keeps working in the background. Couple caveats (There always is), this works at scale for companies that have less security on their site. Since it’s a simple HTTP request it can be blocked if the site is set up right. It takes around 1-2 hours to scrape from 100k domains, which is enough for 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 people. If you are sitting on raw data from places like Google Maps and still paying premium prices to enrich and monetize it consider building one focused pipeline like this instead. Map out your data source, your storage layer, your scraping logic and your monetization step then use Python and the relevant APIs to glue them together. Start with a small slice of your leads, prove the hit rate and only then scale it up to millions. Due to demand we’re working on a product for agencies to run this locally, it’ll be cheaper than pretty much everything on the market. Give us another week or so and we’ll have more updates on this. Or you can join the newsletter which the first link in my bio